A total of 21 municipalities were marked in red as part of the most recent transmission risk analysis of Covid-19, Which means that none of their plants will be able to reopen next week, even if they have the infrastructure and capacity to implement the protocols of the Department of Health.
The municipalities with the highest level of transmission are Aguadilla, Isabela, Quebradillas, Hatillo, Cataño, Loíza, Santa Isabel, Juana Díaz, Ponce, Jayuya, Peñuelas, San Germán, Lajas, Maricao, Cabo Roig, Lares, Añasco, Racó, Naranjito, Barranquitas and Morovis.
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“For schools that want to have a hybrid modality (face-to-face and distance education), one of the criteria is that the municipality is not at the red level. It must also comply safely for students, teachers and everything the protocol establishes.” , said the Secretary of Health, Carlos Mellado, Alluding to the guides issued last week.
Mellado added that all schools must also be registered in the BioPortal of the agency, a requirement that already meets all public nurseries.
Tomorrow, the Department of Education make official the list of public nurseries that could open next month.
A list that circulated yesterday showed that the Department of Education considers that there are 187 nurseries structurally suitable to offer face-to-face education.
Altogether, the 21 villages at the red level have 49 schools that, structurally, would be in a position to open. That way, there would be some left 138 schools with the potential to reopen in the initial phase of the return to face-to-face classes.
Concerned that schools that reopen will have to close in the face of a sudden increase in levels of contagion in a given municipality, Mellado argued that the current trend of transmission in the country is downward.
“What is red, is going to be turning a different color (depending on the shape) in which we are moving so far in the pandemic,” said the head of Health.
Mellado has argued that, at the island level, Puerto Rico is at the orange level, the third of the four levels of risk. Most municipalities, at the moment, appear in yellow, the second highest level of risk.
The only municipalities at the blue level, the lowest risk, are Manatí, Corozal, Canóvanas, Patilles, Ceiba, Vieques and Culebra.